AnarchistArtificer

@AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here as well⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish you well for whatever remains of recovering from the illness, it sounds like you’ve had a rough time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2867: DateTime⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the word “Epochalypse”, from the wiki page you linked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda confirms they are working on releasing new features you asked for, from city maps, to mod support, to all new ways of traveling next year for Starfield⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’ve excellently captured the difference here. I didn’t get heavily into Elite Dangerous, but on one of my longest journeys, I scanned a few things that no-one had ever scanned before. I didn’t discover any awesome looking space phenomena that would be worth sharing (at least, none that hadn’t been discovered before), but the prospect that I could was exciting.

  Even just the idea that my name would be on other people’s screens if they came and scanned the same things I did, because we were all sharing the same world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Picard nnighted by Klingon Queen El'beth, colorized, circa 2259⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t generally like AI generated images, but this is great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lower Decks: Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you’re necessarily missing anything. Lower Decks is probably my favourite Star Trek series by a decent margin, but I think that people’s varying tastes is part of the Trek experience.

  Like the first Star Trek I ever watched was TNG, with a partner who hated DS9 because of how far it was from the much more utopian tone of TNG. My best friend, however, loved DS9 most of all for that exact same reason. I can’t tolerate The Original Series because of how campy and cringe it is, but I have friends who love it for that.

  If you hate Lower Decks, then your perspective is one I can’t really relate to, but that just feels like regular old Trekkie solidarity to me - with a show so varied, inevitably there’s going to be diverse viewpoints. That in mind, I’m not going to try and change mind, I’m just going to highlight why I love Lower Decks.

  My favourite bit about Lower Decks is that it feels like a love letter to Trek, in all its forms. There’s a lot of references I don’t get, but I don’t need to get them to feel the warm fuzzies of knowing this show was made by people who are, first and foremost, fans of Star Trek. I like utopian sci fi because the state of the real world means that I can find real hope in the fantasy because in my heart, I believe in humanity.

  Alongside all of that idealistic space exploration though, Lower Decks doesn’t shy away from the more pernicious aspects of Star Trek, and Starfleet/the Federation. The humour isn’t always my taste, but I think they use it well to poke fun at Star Trek, the show, but also the world within. The sometimes critical lens that is taken is part of why it feels so much like a love letter to Trek - if you truly love something, you’ve got to take the bad with the good and not pretend that everything is perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Workplace dictatorship.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who has been in that exact same position, be cautious about organisation choices that seem like they’d be beneficial regardless of whether you live, but actually make it easier to die than live.

  For me, it was the way that I stored my craft and hobby stuff - I made them tidier and more but in practice, harder to access. I did it this way because I wasn’t actually using my hobby stuff, so they were just in the way. However, part of why I was so passively suicidal was because of the gradual atrophy of all the things that used made me happy, so by tidying away my tools, I was just digging myself deeper.

  What I’m saying is that living, and life, is messy. Having a clear out can be good and productive, especially if you’re not in a great place, because it can reveal things that aren’t working for you now, but try not to make the same mistake I did. With the new space freed up by your organisation efforts, look over your stuff again and consider whether there’s anything you could put in a more accessible place to reduce the activation energy of starting. I put some of my crochet stuff near my computer so I can do it while I’m in meetings, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My domain is more bioinformatics than GIS, but the way I imagined it was that if one was arguing that [thing] data is better, they’re arguing that if more people recognised the innate benefits of [thing], we wouldn’t have to rely on software that uses [other thing] so much, and that to properly utilise [thing], it would take a bit of radical reworking of workflows, but there would be significant long term net benefit.

  Basically, I think arguments like this tend to be more grounded in the socio-cultural practices of a research field than the absolute technical merits of an approach. Like in my domain, a DNA sequence is just a long sequence of 4 different letters (A, T, G & C), but there’s a bunch of ways we can encode that data into a file, many of which have trade-offs (and some of which are just an artifact of how things used to be done)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Whilst this only applies to a minority of people who use these services, if you’re disabled, having someone else stand in line for you is a godsend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Right-to-repair is now the law in California⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, something that isn’t vetoed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users - gHacks Tech News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Your instinct is right, because it does take a little bit of time to be familiar enough that it’s automatic, but it doesn’t need to be a big daunting thing - I first dabbled with Linux running in a virtual box. Then I dual booted for a while. Now I’m running just Linux. Dipping your toe in the water is good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users - gHacks Tech News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was doing something similar for a while, but I found I struggled with inertia enough that I kept doing non-gaming stuff on Windows. I switched to using Fedora as my main operating system, getting rid of Windows entirely, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how straightforward gaming has been. (Though as I understand it, it’s trickier for people with Nvidia GPUs)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UPDATE YOUR BROWSERS IMMEDIATELY. RCE VULNERABILITY DISCOVERED⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the term is as much a comment on maturity as it is literal age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oppa⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, right? I didn’t expect to watch it through to the end, but that was mesmerising